Roland Garros Day 7 - Roger Federer did what?!
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
There aren’t many new experiences for Roger Federer in tennis these days, but playing and winning in an empty stadium at past midnight is certainly one of them.
We discuss how on earth he managed to beat Dominik Koepfer, what the result said about his character, and how we ended up with this absurd night session scheduling.
Elsewhere, there’s a look at Sloane Stephens' silky tennis, Coco Gauff’s professional progression, straightforward days for Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, and the sensational shotmaking of Lorenzo Musetti.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm San Roenca. I'm like Newt. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Janic Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Well it's five to midnight here in the UK which means it's five to one in the morning as we record |
| 0:27.2 | in Paris where Roger Federer has just managed to beat Dominic Cuffer from one set all, |
| 0:33.8 | a position of one set all. He's won through in front of nobody. He's 39 years of age and I can't |
| 0:42.0 | quite believe that sentence because of completing with your listeners. We recorded this intro |
| 0:48.7 | several hours ago when we thought that Roger Federer was going out of this tournament and we are |
| 0:54.2 | re-recording it because he has proved me wrong spectacularly by his tenacity, his drive, his |
| 1:04.7 | just determination Catherine to to show what he's all about. I mean I think there's so much to |
| 1:11.8 | unpack, there's so much that went on tonight but what I can't get away from is the fact that when |
| 1:16.3 | he lost the second set he didn't just chuck it in and go off and prepare for the grass. |
| 1:23.1 | It's very very important that the original cut never sees the light of day. We must always keep |
| 1:30.9 | in the good books of editor Patrick who has a who has a copy of the original of this |
| 1:39.6 | which it's fair to say has not aged well. I was talking all about the hunger of Dominic Cuffer |
| 1:47.3 | relative to the lack of hunger would be too strong but I felt like Federer really wanted to win |
| 1:56.0 | but I questioned how deep he was willing to dig and I was wrong to do that. He really showed |
| 2:05.8 | something tonight. How can he still be showing new things at 39 but he did. I spent about four |
| 2:15.6 | and a half minutes talking about all the ways in which this match reminded me of John Millman, |
| 2:21.2 | US Open 2018 and how hauntingly familiar it all felt and it did. It did. All that is still true |
| 2:34.1 | and I'm sure Federer had the odd flashback of John Millman, US Open 2018. He changed his shirt |
| 2:41.3 | four times tonight. Roger Federer might not have been as hot as it was in New York that day but it |
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